3 papers
cond-mat.soft2020
Integer topological defects of cell monolayers -- mechanics and flows
Carles Blanch-Mercader, Pau Guillamat, Aurélien Roux +1
Monolayers of anisotropic cells exhibit long-ranged orientational order and topological defects. During the development of organisms, orientational order often influences morphogen…
cond-mat.soft2020
Quantifying material properties of cell monolayers by analyzing integer topological defects
Carles Blanch-Mercader, Pau Guillamat, Aurélien Roux +1
In developing organisms, internal cellular processes generate mechanical stresses at the tissue scale. The resulting deformations depend on the material properties of the tissue, w…
q-bio.TO2018
Collective stresses drive competition between monolayers of normal and Ras-transformed cells
Sarah Moitrier, Carles Blanch-Mercader, Simon Garcia +6
We study the competition for space between two cell lines that differ only in the expression of the Ras oncogene. The two cell populations are initially separated and set to migrat…